Brad Taylor
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Editas Medicine
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Taylor is a seasoned software engineering manager with 13 years of experience building scalable bioinformatics and lab systems at the intersection of genomics and cloud engineering. Based in Cambridge, he has led cross-functional teams at Editas Medicine and the Broad Institute to deliver LIMS, data processing Lambdas, and a core UI migration from jQuery to React that supported an IND-enabling in‑vivo study. He pairs hands-on backend work—contributions to the widely used Picard toolkit for HTS data—with product leadership, having driven the Terra platform’s UI and notebook scalability initiatives. Comfortable working directly with scientists, Brad designs data models for sample tracking and authors software quality documentation for 21 CFR Part 11 compliance. He brings a pragmatic blend of lab process experience, formal training in biotechnology, and deep Java/AWS/React expertise to bridge research needs and production software. An engineer who still ships code, he’s known for improving robustness through refactoring and automating validation across complex genomics pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Biology; Molecular Genetics, BS Biology; Molecular Genetics at University of RochesterMaster of Liberal Arts Biotechnology, Master of Liberal Arts Biotechnology at Harvard Extension School
Github Skills (9)
java10
javas10
vcf-files10
testing10
bioinformatics9
unit-testing9
command-line-tool9
github-ci3
githubaction-workflow3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
broadinstitute/picard
Apr 2014 - Oct 2015
A set of command line tools (in Java) for manipulating high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data and formats such as SAM/BAM/CRAM and VCF.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:19 commits, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to the backend code of the `picard` repository, focusing on enhancements and refactoring of existing classes such as `SamFileTester` and `SortVcf`. They moved directory creation logic to constructors and refactored `SortVcf` class, addressing code review comments. Furthermore, the user generalized existing tests and added new test cases for validation and input handling. Their work streamlined the codebase and improved the robustness of the tools.
sequencebamcramcommand-line-toolsfasta
bradtaylor/thesis
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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